Posted on 12/11/2001 10:07:00 AM PST by KLT
We are taking nominations for our first-ever RINO (Republican in Name Only) of the year award. This award will recognize a Republican who has advanced egregious anti-growth, anti-freedom or anti-free-market policies. The "winner" may be a member of Congress or any other state or local elected official. (Sorry, our economically challenged Treasury Secretary Paul O'Neill is not an elected official, so he is ineligible.)
Here are some front-runners who have already been nominated:
Governor Don Sundquist of Tennessee for repeatedly trying to enact a State income tax.
Rep. Greg Ganske (Iowa), a Republican sponsor of the Democratic bill to federalize 30,000 airport workers.
Sen. Mike Enzi, for co-sponsoring the Internet tax bill.
Sen. John McCain, for voting for a key amendment by Democratic Leader Tom Daschle and for offering his own amendment that would have gutted the Bush tax cut.
California Assemblyman Mike Briggs, for making it possible for Gov. Gray Davis to pass his tax increase budget this year.
Please fax (202-955-9466) or e-mail your nominations by 12/19/2001. You should include a few sentences about your nominee's anti-growth efforts in 2001. If you have particularly dumb quotes from the nominee that attempt to explain his actions, please include this information. We will then have a poll of our members and our Board will make the selection from the finalists.
Thank you for your nominations.
Stephen Moore
President
Club for Growth
1776 K St. NW, Suite 300
Washington, DC 20006
SteveMoore@clubforgrowth.org
202-955-5500
202-955-9466 fax
Kewel!! Won't be long before we've got ourselves a quorum!!
FReegards...MUD
Yep...I'm old enough to remember the cartoon, but I can't recall Senator Foghorn/Fogbound off the top of my head. Do recall a cute blonde farmgirl, though...is that the right comic strip? Yer description of Gentleman Jawn as "our native windbag son" is appropos, and I could almost stomach that in a GOPer if it wasn't fer his propensity to stab real, honest-to-goodness conservatives between the shoulder blades. In fact, I'm surprised he didn't try to take out Senator Allen in his vile jealousy...betcha he wouldda if he figgered he couldda gotten away with it!!
Now...if we could just agree on his replacement in time for next Spring's primary!!
I'll be sure to bump you up on any threads I see--or start--pertaining to this most-important issue fer Virginians, my FRiend.
FReegards...UVA85/MUD
Yep...I'm old enough to remember the cartoon, but I can't recall Senator Foghorn/Fogbound off the top of my head. Do recall a cute blonde farmgirl, though...is that the right comic strip? Yer description of Gentleman Jawn as "our native windbag son" is appropos, and I could almost stomach that in a GOPer if it wasn't fer his propensity to stab real, honest-to-goodness conservatives between the shoulder blades. In fact, I'm surprised he didn't try to take out Senator Allen in his vile jealousy...betcha he wouldda if he figgered he couldda gotten away with it!!
Now...if we could just agree on his replacement in time for next Spring's primary!!
I'll be sure to bump you up on any threads I see--or start--pertaining to this most-important issue fer Virginians, my FRiend.
FReegards...UVA85/MUD
LOL!! Yep...pretty well describes Lott, "The Mississippi Queen"!!
FReegards...MUD
Please say yer joking!! If true, what the heck's up with PA?! They show the wherewithal to do what's right in electing and re-electing Rick Santorum, a proud Conservative, then keep the major RINO Scottish Law Expert Spectre in place...that's weird enuff!! But to elect a FRiscoBay Kennedy Lib'ral like Chris Matthews...SHEEEESH!!!
Please say it ain't so...it's such a purty State.
FReegards...MUD
Howdy, Ms. Bunny...MUD
I am humiliated that my state forced this clown on the rest of you.
I loathe John Warner but he's a Democrat.
Any other day I'd vote Mcain, but right now Ashcroft and Bush are more of a threat.
Do a google search on "Paxon gay Molinari".
no yer not the most conservative member of FR...I AM!!
No "yer" not ... I am.
The GOP is in the process of merging with the democrats, mainly because they're too dimwitted to keep up the charade of being in opposition to the dems. The dems can lie more convincingly and that is the trait that has republican politicians in awe of the dems.
Let's hope the GOP formalizes the merger before '04 so that conservatives won't be gulled into giving Geedub a second term or throwing the election to the dems by failing to support a conservative if one can be found to run in time.
1)McManiac
2)Arlen Specter
3)Peter King
4)Chris Shays
5) (but soon to be #2) Rino Bloomberg whose first two appointments, thus far, are democraps - surprise, surprise.
It's good to see a fellow conservative join the forum. I get a little lonely surrounded by republicans. ;-)
... delayed stockholm syndrome?
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